Cross-Cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents - Culture and Computing - page 19

Fig. 1. Three agent designs created by two Japanese designers. Each design shows neutral
expression. From left: Boy 1, Boy 2, Girl designs.
Fig. 2. Three original facial expressions of the Boy 1 design. From left: happy, neutral, and sad.
Fig. 3. Examples of six combined facial expressions created from images in Fig. 2. From top
left: happy eyes and neutral mouth (HN), happy eyes and sad mouth (HS), neutral eyes and
happy mouth (NH); from bottom left: neutral eyes and sad mouth (NS), sad eyes and happy
mouth (SH), sad eyes and neutral mouth (SN).